STREET VOICE urban platform consists of 2 big cubes which in their turn are composed of 27 little multicolored cubes. They may be assembled in various ways, e.g., to arrange small-scale concerts, public readings, discussions, or to work online as there’s free Wi-Fi Zone in Cube.
The urban sculpture called “StreetVoice” was launched at 22B, Andriyivs'kyi Uzviz in October 2010 within the framework of the project “Game Street – Street Games” initiated by the Goethe-Institut Ukraine. Afterwards, the sculpture was exhibited in five more Ukrainian cities (Uzhgorod, Donetsk, Kherson, Simferopol, Vinnytsia) within the urban transformation program named Generation Celebration. Based on the platform’s goals, architectural bureau Zotov&Co developed a concept of space reconstruction at 22B, Andriyivs'kyi Uzviz called PUSTOTA 22B.
Firstly, Public sessions STREET VOICE invite participants to consider the city itself as a unique type of living being. The city is a changeable subject. The city is an organic system through which we live and grow. Secondly, STREET VOICE serves as a reminder that all individual citizens actively partake in the collective existence of such a city-being.
Thought and Action Decorator is an instrument for your own creative activity. No matter for what purpose (visualizing your fantasies or noting down your thoughts), you’ve got to keep it about yourself. It was created to be used under both mundane and extraordinary circumstances. Eventually, it will become an integral part of you.
Thought and Action Decorator is a unique ‘travel book’ note pad filled with visual stuff and texts, as well as lots of empty pages just for you. You are welcome to participate in a public action ‘Thought and Action Decorator’ which is sort of a collective exhibition of Decorators filled with your personal ideas, thoughts, daily designs, demonstrations of your creativity as well as travel notes and life impressions. The final of the public action will take place in May 2011 at BiggggIdea Festival within Generation Celebration project. All that is required to participate in the action is buying the note pad Thought and Action Decorator, leaving your e-mail, spending six creative months together with your note pad, and bringing it to the collective exhibition
Formation Garage Gang Kollektiv is launching the 5-year program of developing Ukrainian cities called Generation Celebration. Year after year, five Ukrainian cities from five regions (Center/North, South, West, East, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) will participate in it.
Generation Celebration is a program of innovative educational projects, creative practices, concept formation and production concerning urban renewal.
Subject matter for year 2010/2011: The Creative City as a scope of collaboration.
Within the framework of GC project, Formation Garage Gang and friends go on the 36-day tour by mobile communication center FURA KULTURA to visit the cities of Ukraine. FURA KULTURA is a travelling laboratory which is supposed to function as a research studio, a Wi-Fi Zone, a meeting point, a sound recording studio, a library, a café, an art gallery, and a poetry club. Open breakfasts and lunches, morning exercises, conversations on creative topics, evening cinemas, and art interventions are on the program. As the territory which belongs to no one, FURA KULTURA’s going to settle down in a public space to ensure the neutral atmosphere for debates at both local and national level.
International art initiative about women of the world.
Woman 3000 which have started in Ukraine does focus on the research in what way woman able to shape our future? As for beginning Woman 3000 project was reflected by the photographic art of the broaden picture of the woman from 17 countries, exhibitions in more than 20 alternative spaces of 5 cities, discussions and press-conferences with music concerts, poetry on the street festival and other art doings.
Project provides a dialogue between generations and adds some new energy to the discussion concerning possibilities of women’s self-realization at the beginning of the 3rd millennium.
Sunday Borshch - a friendly meal, which functions as the financing of grants intended to support independent ideas and initiatives. The size of grants is formed depending on the number of tickets sold for Borshch. Present guests vote for the ideas presented in the "menu" event. Author whose idea gathered the most votes is awarded a grant to further develop their own plan. Ideas are presented on platform www.biggggidea.com
Citizens’ participation in the financing of ideas and direct voting are key elements. Presentation of ideas for a vote is deliberately simple and exempt from bureaucratic procedures. This approach with the active participation of visitors and events can stimulate promotion of experimental, critical and creative practice that can not get support from foundations and public organizations.
Sunday Borshch is an open platform to discuss current projects with a new audience, dating new people and exchange of successful experiences.
Project Sunday Borshch is organized by formation Garage Gang within the initiative New Citizen with support of PACT, UNITER, USAID, Egoisty. Originally initiative Sunday Soup belongs to InCUBATE Chicago
Society to do list.
A national and international social innovations program that uses investments into young professionals to redesign the social values. A platform to develop and implement ideas of a new world. Encourage inventive brainiacs at times when new centers of the system are forming. Beautiful discoveries and stimulation of potential through the search for ideas of universal harmony. Lessons of education and promotion of social responsibility. Construction of true means of life in your land through intuition. An innovative reply to the old world.
7 Colours. 7 Days. 7 Speeches
7 pants is a project by a curator and artist Sasha Shagi, which represents an installation product (either live or online) about 7 coloured pants during 7 days with 7 speeches on the chosen topic.
When walking we make steps, steps determine our movement, our movement borders on our pace of life, and our life is able to fill stops and movements with colours. 7 pants project is textual and visual stops with cloth changes: when you constantly run, sometimes you just want to stop or sit down and to say a word or seven.
Program of private residence by Alevtina Kakhidze.
Every person makes an impact on history – either of small districts or big cities, or maybe of the whole world. Being an average or a prominent person, each of us enriches and builds the history by our actions through life. Alevtina Kakhidze, artist and curator, kicks off a project of private residency Expanded History of Muzychi. Within this project artists from all over the world can stay in a personal studio of Alevtina Kakhidze, situated in the town of Muzychi near Kyiv.
Often residence programs require quite efficient scenarios. In this case there are no such rules. Open and simple atmosphere in this private space plays a role of canvas for the artistic self-expression during exploration of the new place. Curators, artists and theoreticians might add some “action” to the calm life of Muzychi and so will enlarge its history by their simple presence in the town. This program is a long-term.
Event of red happiness and chance meetings.
Every Sunday during last summer an artist Alina Kopitsa with her friends and random passers-by sewed a carpet of roses made out of old, red-coloured clothes. Alina promoted healthy and unobtrusive idea of collectivism through art.
The main idea of the event was creation of an additional and innovative space for communication. Additionally, this is great either art- or labour therapy since reasonable amount of the manual, routine labour settles your nerves and cheers you u
A literary artistic impromptu without any zoology but probably with some philosophy.
This novel story tells us about a small Ukrainian named Sasha Shagi who didn’t become a pianist but wrote a light literary psychedelia «Fantasie Impromptu» , in which he travelled all over different cities of the world under cover of a half-made-up character King of the Keys, blaming sparrows for his dreams that never came true. Then he asked artists from all over the world to do the same thing artistically – to paint sparrows with their lost dreams.
56 artists from 23 countries drew their local sparrows and opened their hearts to the world. Some very interesting Ukrainians exposed their souls on the local level – Rosava, Yura Khustochka, Vasya Frolova, Lubko Deresh, Irena Karpa, Anton Fridlyand, Ira Merleni.
All this was presented on Novemeber 08 at the Hudgraf gallery. The publication of a literary art-book “Fantasie Impromptu” is under way.
Bar Crawling on the Occasion of Bearded Man`s Day.
Bar Crawling is a fun drinking process by either an organized or occasional group of people going from one bar to another. This event has been often devoted to various cultural events, while the first bar crawling was devoted to Bearded Man`s Day, September 14.
317 years ago in September 14 the innovative and provocative tsar Peter I the Great imposed a tax on beard to popularize the European culture. Today - hundreds of years later when the culture borders do not exist anymore and there are no limits for male and female beauty, beards have became a symbol of beauty and virtuosity - barbed or smooth, red or black, short or long!
Big cards of love and hate. Social interactive game.
Do you hate Muslims? Are you suddenly feel ashamed of gay people? Or, maybe, on the contrary, you hate homophobes and Nazis? You have a chance to try on similar roles and think over the question – who determines our diversity? Are there any two absolutely identical people physically and psychologically? Playing the social game of illustrated cards ‘Stereotypes’ opens a possibility for you to be in any of the discriminated roles and try all the “flavors” of stereotypes regarding religious, gender, skin color and social groups.
New instrument for studying questions of tolerance. Educational instrument for social philosophy, individual rights and duties, individual interests and social responsibility.
Personal exhibition by Alina Kopytsya.
Windows in the city were dusted. And nobody cares of them. Once windows were carefully prettied, cleaned and decorated with colors. Windows were proud of a new life and beauty.
Windows is an author’s project by Alina Kopytsya presented in a hallway of the Contemporary Arts Center, where the window frames, collected at the Kyiv garbage dumps and remade in patterned artifacts by the artist, have been displayed. Garbage stuff such as colour cellophane, packs and paper were used as the art materials.
Obtaining personal space as an expression of feminist sentiments.
According to psychotherapists and sociologists a person has a 1,3 m personal social space. Trespassing the area less than 1,3 metres triggers the feeling of a constant stress and subconscious anxiety.
Within the framework of Personal Space project funded by the EIDOS Foundation, Alina Kopitsa made a defensive, bulky dress and in the morning hours took a ride in the public transport from Fastiv to Khreschatik. The dress that represented visualisation of the artist’s personal space, helped her to demonstrate a claim for getting a relief from stress and a need of personal comfort. Together with obtaining the physical environment the artist was also expressing her feminist sentiments.
Emotion research in apartment buildins via several questions to the public.
"Can one man kiss the beautiful eyes of another man?" - it is one of 50 questions that tenants of 7 apartment buildings in Kyiv saw one morning. Images of men of different races and orientation were posted on the walls on every floor together with a question. Those interested could send an answer by email. The exposition lasted less than a day. The research found out the loss of simplified understanding of possibilities and actions between accepted and unaccepted relationships of the sexes — man and man, man and woman.
